KINA: The socio-economic advisory

Combining her extensive networks and natural affinity for organization, innovative practice, and effective execution, Mary provides companies entering the Kenyan market with strategic insight so that they can successfully navigate the country’s systems and processes efficiently and with integrity. Her participation in the founding of several collaborative organizations, such as the Petroleum Institute of East Africa (PIEA), has created new spaces for engagement within private sector and between the sector and government. Through her work in this field she has rallied stakeholders with otherwise widely varying views and objectives around a common vision.

Mary serves on the boards of Guaranty Trust Bank (Kenya) Ltd, APA Insurance, APA Life, Apollo Investment Ltd and PayGo Energy. She is a member of Member Association of Energy Professionals Eastern Africa (AEPEA), Kenya Institute of Management (KIM), Institute of Directors Kenya, International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the ICF Kenya Charter Chapter. She holds a degree in Business and Certification in Executive Coaching, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership training. Mary was awarded the national honour of Moran of the Burning Spear (MBS) by the President of Kenya in 2006.

Richard also managed investment transactions for IFC in the infrastructure space in the region across the spectrum of IFC investment products of equity, mezzanine, senior debt, and corporate debt.

Prior to this, Richard was a Principal Investment Officer in IFC’s Global Mining Team based in Washington DC where he originated and managed transformational mining projects like Rio Tinto’s Simandou Project in Guinea.

Before joining the IFC, Richard held senior roles in Citibank’s corporate and project finance teams based in Africa, including Vice President of the bank’s, Sub-Saharan Africa Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Department, based in Nairobi, South Africa and Lagos. He was also a Senior Financial Analyst role with AngloGold Ashanti (previously Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited).

As well as being a member of Kina’s network of associates, Richard is a director of Africa Infrastructure Solutions, which provides consultancy services to the energy sector in Africa.

Richard has a Master’s degree from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada as well as a first degree in Business Economics from Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.

Chris has practical experience of integrating political and stakeholder analysis into business decision making through the project life-cycle, designing and delivering market entry evaluations, Board-level country strategies, policy and sector governance evaluations, issue management plans and stakeholder engagement strategies. He has worked across the continent with a particular focus on resource economies in West, Central and East Africa.

Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Modern History from Oxford University and a post-graduate Master’s in African Studies from the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London.

Pamela worked with Tullow Oil for 10 years first in Uganda and then at Head office as the Group Socio-economic Investment Manager developing strategy, operating standards and procedures, monitoring and reporting on socio-economic investment (SEI) initiatives as part of Tullow’s Sustainability mandate. Prior to Tullow she has worked with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa), United Nations Development Programme (Botswana), Irish Aid Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Zambia) and with Irish Telecommunications Investments (Dublin) in a variety of Programme Management roles.

Pamela has a Bachelor of Business Studies from Trinity College Dublin University and an MSc in International Finance from Heriot -Watt University, Edinburgh. She is also a qualified Accountant FCCA.

Theo’s political risk experience involves helping clients understand and navigate complex political and business risks in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely in Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He has worked as a senior analyst and senior consultant for firms such as IHS Markit, Crystol Energy, Oxford Policy Management and Kina Advisory Limited, among others. Theo has a PhD in Economics and an MSc in Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance (with distinction) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is an Associate Lecturer at The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF), University of Aberdeen. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at Ghanaian Think Tank IMANI Centre for Policy and Education. He is quoted in international media such as the BBC, Bloomberg, AFP, CNBC, and has published in leading academic journals.

Prisca is fluent in French and English and has worked in 15 countries including Chad, Gabon, Guinea, South Africa and Senegal. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales. She is a member of the International Association for Impact Assessment and the Société de l’Industrie Minérale. As well as being a member of Kina’s network of associates, she is the Founder of Landa Eder.

As well as being a member of Kina’s network of associates, she is a Consultant at Abell Geospatial Consulting Limited.

Other projects include provision of GIS Consultancy Services in support of biodiversity studies and critical habitat assessment, including mining projects in Africa and Armenia, Oil and Gas projects across Africa, Europe and the Middle East, including focus on large pipeline development studies. Previous roles have included responsibility for increasing the use and application of GIS in support to Operational activities, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Social Performance projects.

Her expertise includes project management and client liaison, including overseeing ESIA. She has been responsible for the development of GIS based environmental risk assessment processes in support of exploration evaluation, as well as defining the use of GIS for emergency response and crisis management both within the Oil and Gas industry and also for humanitarian mapping projects. She specialises in the use of GIS for a range of applications, including baseline studies, risk assessment and constraints mapping. She has also developed GIS standards for ESIA and been responsible for the management of external Consultant’s GIS in support to the ESIA process. She has previously held Senior GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist positions at Tullow Oil and Astrium Geo-Information Services (now Airbus Defence and Space).